NAME

Astro::Catalog::IO::VOTable - VOTable Input/Output format

SYNOPSIS

$catalog = Astro::Catalog::IO::VOTable->_read_catalog( \@lines );
\@lines = Astro::Catalog::IO::VOTable->_write_catalog( $catalog );
Astro::Catalog::IO::VOTable->_default_file();

DESCRIPTION

Performs simple IO, reading or writing a VOTable.

FORMAT

This class implements an interface to VOTable documents. This uses the GSFC VOTable classes which inherits from XML::LibXML::Document class.

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (C) 2001-2003 University of Exeter. All Rights Reserved. Some modificiations Copyright (C) 2003 Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council. All Rights Reserved.

This module was written as part of the eSTAR project in collaboration with the Joint Astronomy Centre (JAC) in Hawaii and is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Public License.

AUTHORS

Alasdair Allan <aa@astro.ex.ac.uk>